Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Hour 1: How do some political leaders manage to hang on to power for decades, winning election after election in so-called democratic countries around the world? We’ll talk this hour with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University and co-author of the new book “The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics” (Public Affairs, 2011).